Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in. Brian nudged the gir...

Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and a cyber-spectr...

Leave your incidental Dick.

I texted back: A few minutes passed while I stared at my phone.

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. T...

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

There is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that Relapse is part of recovery. It's another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permissio...

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above.

We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our own...

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872

I am continuously struck by how frequently the various thought processes of the inner critic trigger overwhelming emotional flashbacks. This is because the PTSD-derived inner critic weds shame and sel...

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.